title: Evaluation of the addressing substance-related offending (ASRO) program for substance-using offenders in the community: a reconviction analysis.
abstract: This article reports an evaluation of the Addressing Substance-Related Offending program in the English and Welsh Probation Service. Participants were 319 adult male offenders who had a history of substance use and were serving community sentences. A quasi-experimental design was used to compare the reconviction rates of offenders who completed the program, offenders who started but did not complete the program, and a comparison group of offenders who were not allocated to the program. Multivariate analysis showed that at one-year follow-up the completers had a significantly lower rate of reconviction and longer time to reconviction than the non-completers, and the non-completers had a significantly higher rate of reconviction and shorter time to reconviction than the comparison group. No differences were found in reconviction between the completers and comparison group.
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, University of Leicester, UK. ejp8@le.ac.uk
authors.forename: Emma
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Palmer
authors.forename: Ruth
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hatcher
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: McGuire
authors.forename: Charlotte
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bilby
authors.forename: Tammy
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ayres
authors.forename: Clive
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hollin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003415:Crime / Q000517:prevention & control*; D057237:Criminals; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012008:Recurrence; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation*